US6858821B2 - Method of adapting an operating device to user behavior and adaptive operating device - Google Patents

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US6858821B2
US6858821B2 US10/442,741 US44274103A US6858821B2 US 6858821 B2 US6858821 B2 US 6858821B2 US 44274103 A US44274103 A US 44274103A US 6858821 B2 US6858821 B2 US 6858821B2
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    • G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
    • F24C—DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES ; DETAILS OF DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
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    • F24C7/082—Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices on ranges, e.g. control panels, illumination
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  • the invention concerns a method of adapting an operating device belonging to an electrical and/or electronic apparatus to the operating behavior of a user, wherein the electrical/electronic apparatus has a plurality of operating states which can be set by way of the operating device.
  • the invention further pertains to an operating device for carrying out the method.
  • a disadvantage with the specified state of the art is that the presentation of an operating state which is to be selected and set is independent of which operating state the user, on the basis of his habits, usually first selects and sets when he brings the apparatus into operation.
  • an adaptive method in an electrical/electronic apparatus having a plurality of operating states and an operating device for operating the apparatus.
  • the novel method is a method of adapting the operating device to an operating behavior of a user and it comprises the following steps:
  • the primary underlying concept of the invention is that, whenever the user brings the electrical/electronic apparatus or appliance into operation, the user receives the presentation for selection and/or setting of that operating state which he has previously most frequently used. In that respect it can be provided that this occurs only when the frequency of selection or setting of the operating state lies above a first threshold value, that is to say above a preset percentage. If the frequency of no operating state selection and/or setting is above that first threshold value, a fixedly preset selection or setting or also the selection or setting last involved is suggested.
  • a second threshold value which is lower than the first threshold value.
  • the procedure switches over from a presentation of the most frequently effected selection or setting to a presentation of a fixedly preset selection or setting or the last-implemented selection or setting again. Due to the fact that the second threshold value is lower than the first one, there is a hysteresis effect which ensures that, in the case of frequency values near the threshold values, the procedure is prevented from frequently switching over between presentation of the most frequently implemented selection/setting and the presentation of the preset or the last-implemented selection/setting, which could greatly confuse the user.
  • the first threshold value is 90% and the second threshold value is 70%.
  • a user-adaptive operating device for an electrical and/or electronic apparatus having a plurality of operating states to be selected or set with the operating device.
  • the device comprises:
  • an operating device for carrying out the method has a memory for storage of the effected selections and/or settings of operating states, a counter for ascertaining the number of how often a selection and/or a setting is implemented, a calculator for ascertaining the frequency of a selection and/or setting and a comparator for ascertaining the most frequently implemented selection and/or setting.
  • a preferred embodiment of the invention provides a discriminator which decides whether the frequency of a selection and/or setting has exceeded the first threshold value or has fallen below the second threshold value.
  • An embodiment of the invention provides that the operating device is a stove control configuration for a stove, that the operating states are the number of the various heating zones, in particular the burners of the stove, and that setting of the operating state is the input of the heating output for the selected heating zone.
  • an alternative embodiment of the invention provides that the operating device is a timer switch for a stove, that the operating states are the various switching programs (in particular clock time, timer time, operating duration and end of operating time) of the timer switch and that setting of the operating state is the input of a time value for the selected switching program.
  • the invention provides that, when the apparatus is brought into operation, the user is first presented with that operating state for selection and/or that setting of that operating state, which the user employs most frequently according to his habits.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram for a stove control configuration of a cooktop
  • FIG. 2 is flow chart and block diagram of the method according to the invention.
  • a stove control configuration 1 which comprises a control unit 2 and an operating unit 3 .
  • the control configuration 1 serves to control the cooktop 4 which has burners 5 to 8 with a dual-circuit supply configuration 9 and a frying supply configuration 10 .
  • the control unit 2 has a memory 21 , a counter 22 , a calculator 23 , a comparator 24 and a discriminator 25 which can all or also only in part be formed in an IC or a microcontroller and the mode of operation of which will be described hereinafter.
  • the operating element 3 has a push-button switch 31 , a plus button or switch 32 , a minus button or switch 33 and a burner selection switch 34 . It furthermore has a seven-segment display 35 , display lamps 36 to 39 respectively associated with the burners 5 to 8 , and display lamps 40 and 41 associated with the dual-circuit supply configuration 9 and the frying supply configuration 10 .
  • step 102 After the stove control configuration is switched on by way of the switch 31 (start 101 ), an inquiry is made at step 102 as to whether a preferred cooking location is stored in the memory 21 . If that is the case then that cooking location (for example the burner 6 with the extendable field, i.e., the dual-circuit supply configuration 9 ) is selected at step 103 and the corresponding display lamps 37 and 40 light up. If no preferred cooking location is stored the cooking location last used (for example the burner 5 ) is switched on at step 104 .
  • a preferred cooking location for example the burner 6 with the extendable field, i.e., the dual-circuit supply configuration 9
  • step 105 An inquiry is now made in the query step 105 whether, in relation to the cooking location which has been switched on, a preferred initial heating stage is stored in the memory 21 . If that is the case, step 106 indicates that in a flashing mode at the seven-segment display 35 and enables confirmation through an actuation of the plus button 32 , whereby then the selected cooking location is heated at that initial heating stage. If no preferred initial heating stage is stored in the memory 21 (or if the suggestion is not confirmed after a certain time) the heating stage for the selected cooking location is set to zero at step 107 . In both cases the heating stage can be increased or reduced with the buttons 32 and 33 respectively. Also, it is possible to select a cooking location other than the suggested cooking location (for example the burner 8 without the frying supply extension 10 ), by pressing the button 34 , possibly a plurality of times.
  • the cooking location which is actually selected and the initial heating stage actually set are stored in the memory 21 at step 108 .
  • the frequencies for the ‘first selected cooking location after switching on’ and for the ‘initial heating stage for the respective cooking location’ are freshly ascertained at step 109 .
  • the counter 22 ascertains how often each cooking stage (in each case with and without the dual-circuit supply configuration or the frying supply configuration) was selected as the first cooking location after the stove control configuration was switched on and how often the various cooking stages for the individual cooking locations were set as the initial heating stages. From the result, the calculator 23 ascertains the relative frequencies for the various cooking locations and initial heating stages and the comparator 24 ascertains therefrom the respectively most frequently selected ‘first cooking location’ or ‘initial heating stage’.
  • the preferred cooking location or the preferred initial heating stage respectively is erased from the memory 21 at step 113 .
  • the memory 21 of the control unit 2 stores the ‘first cooking location after switching on’ and ‘initial heating stage’, which is currently adapted to the behavior of the user at step 111 .
  • the preferred cooking location and the preferred initial heating stage are stored only after a minimum number of, say, ten switch-on operations in respect of the stove control configuration.
  • the described method can also be transferred to other control configurations, thus for example to timer switches or stove timer switches.
  • the configuration ascertains which of the various switching programs the user preferably uses and which time values he most frequently inputs for the individual switching programs. In this case also those preferred data are stored. Upon the activation of the timer switch, that switching program which is most frequently used by the user is suggested first. Likewise, when selecting the various switching programs, the respective time value which has been most frequently inputted by the user for that program is suggested. Likewise there is a built-in hysteresis effect so that preferred settings are only stored when the frequency thereof is above a higher first threshold value and they are erased again only when the frequency thereof falls below a lower second threshold value.
  • a sequence of the operating states and/or the respective settings to be established in accordance with the relative frequency thereof and for those operating states or settings to be suggested to the user in accordance with that sequence, so that the user is first presented with the most frequent selection or setting, then the second most frequent, thereafter the third most frequent, and so forth.

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